Midterm Flashcards
Midterm materials covering the first 9 weeks of the course taught by Dr, Case
What year were Native Americans made citizens in the United States
1924
Racial Project
Think reforming, fixing an issue of racism
An interpretation, representation, or explanation of racial dynamics, and an effort to reorganize and redistribute resources along racial lines (NOT necessarily in a good way)
How did this come about
Racial Health Disparities
A result of deeply rooted social, economic, and political structure
Monogenism
All humans have a single origin
Polygenism
Different races have different origins. Polygenists usually are strong proponents of differential worth
Who invented the word “Caucasian” to be the equivalent of white
Johan Blumenback (1754)
Racism
Racial prejudice plus institutional and systemic power to dominate, exclude, discriminate against or abuse targeted groups of people based on race
Colorism
Discrimination based on shade of skin color. Often by groups of the same race.
Definition
Oppression
There are three componets to this answer (result of, how it’s reinforced, and societal set up)
- A result of racism is a part of the dominant culture’s national consciousness.
- It is reinforced through social institutions.
- An imbalance of social and economic power in society.
Structural Racism
A system of public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequality.
Rank
The power we have relative to one another in a relationship. Can be both earned or given at birth
Privilege
Benefits/ advantages that come from one’s rank
White Privilege
Historical and contemporary advantages in access to quality education, decent jobs, livable wages, homeownership, retirement benefits, inherited property, wealth, and other benefits.
Pequot people (1636)
Lost a war with the English, and were enslaved. They later resisted and ran away. For that reason, they were traded to Bermuda in exchange for African slaves and were shipped on New England’s first slave ship
1662 - Virginia Law
Determining the status of a child is determined by its mother.
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin (1793) enabling larger cotton plantations and requiring the labor of more and more enslaved people.
Quok Walker
Mass Supreme Court abolishes slavery as a result of a freedom lawsuit brought up by him
Tigon Law
Louisiana law which prohibited black women from uncovering their hair
Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy
Experimental enslaved African women of Dr. Marion Sims for gynecology (repairing vaginal fistulas)
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Enslaved man man who was taken into free territory by his owner. He sued for his freedom as he lived in free territory.
His court was argued in the supreme court and lost because he was considered property not, a citizen.
Intersectionality
Combination of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, and class
Patricia Hills Collins (1990)
Matrix of domination through which individuals experience both privilege and oppression or multiple oppressions.
Intersectional basics
Recognized within-group differences
Sees stratifying institutions as inseparable
An explicit analysis of power
Acknowledges complexity
Closely tied to social justice movements
Strength of Intersectionality
Functions not onlyas a theory but as a framework
Pushes public health practitioners to analyze disparities to reflect the lived experience of those with complex identities
Development of cost-effective and precise interventions
The incorporation of macro-level structural factors that facilitate the development of structural interventions
Challenges of Intersectionality
Which identities to include?
Methods to conduct intersectional research and statical techniques lacking
Intersectionality was developed to describe, not to predict or assess behaviors
Significant challenges in trying to figure out hypothesis testing
What percentage of white people benefited from loans from the FHA?
98%
Racial Covenants
Agreements written into deeds restricting the sales of property to certain groups (mostly, Black, Irish, and Jewish people)
Format for authors for AMA citations
Last name, first and middle initials.
Cut off is at 6, then place et al.
Format for year, volume, issue, pages
Year; volume number (issue): Page numbers.
Where does the citation mark go
OUTSIDE commas and periods
INSIDE colons and semi-colons